Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Gustav Andreas Tammann
Gustav Andreas Tammann was a Swiss astronomer and academic. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Rudolf Raff
Rudolf Albert Raff was an American biologist, and the James H. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Kenneth Hedberg
Kenneth Wayne Hedberg was an American chemist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
David Garman
David Edmund Talbot Garman OBE was a British inventor and businessman who was based in mid-Wales.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Harold Brown
Harold Brown was an American nuclear physicist who served as United States Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981, under President Jimmy Carter. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Wulf Steinmann
Wulf Steinmann was a German physicist and former president of LMU Munich.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Stephen Twinoburyo
Stephen Twinoburyo was a Ugandan scientist, mathematician, lecturer, and entrepreneur. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Stephen Hawking
(Stephen William Hawking)
Legendary British theoretical physicist and cosmologist who discovered Hawking radiation and authored A Brief History of Time.
Ken Seddon
Kenneth Richard Seddon was a chemist specialising in ionic liquids.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Yasuo Tanaka
Yasuo Tanaka was a Japanese astrophysicist and a member of the Japan Academy. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Ishfaq Ahmad Khan
Ishfaq Ahmad SI, HI, NI, FPAS, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist, emeritus professor of high-energy physics at the National Centre for Physics, and former science advisor to the Government of Pakistan.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Arno Motulsky
Arno Gunther Motulsky was a professor of medical genetics and genome sciences at the University of Washington. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
John Bindernagel
John Albert Bindernagel was a wildlife biologist who sought evidence for Sasquatch since 1963.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Pรฅl Spilling
Pรฅl Spilling was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and professor at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller in Norway.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Rick Jolly
Surgeon-Captain Richard Tadeusz Jolly OBE was a Royal Navy medical officer who served in the 1982 Falklands War and was later decorated by both the British and Argentine governments for his distinguished conduct during the conflict. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Jean-Louis Koszul
Jean-Louis Koszul was a French mathematician, best known for studying geometry and discovering the Koszul complex. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Yuan Chengye
Yuan Chengye was a Chinese organic chemist.. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.
Robert Minlos
Robert Adol'fovich Minlos was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who has made important contributions to probability theory and mathematical physics. Celebrated internationally for distinguished contributions to sciences.